Thursday, January 24, 2019

This week the Jingle Belles are asking us to gather up the new crafting goodies we received for the holidays and use them on our holiday cards. I started out with the Christmas-themed set I *needed* because it would work for non-Christmas sets. In fact, I used it for the first time, earlier this month, for a birthday card. I had one more pre-cut Card Buffet kit, and switched color and shape for the focal point:

It took me two days to finish it; not because I had problems, I'm just easily distracted. Between starting and finishing, my winnings from the Jingle Belles arrived - that's just like things Santa brought (even a month later)! Everything is so cute, I had to play with it immediately - look at those little bitty candy cane die cuts:

Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Although I really like flowers, they're not my usual style in card-making, and I don't feel I "have to" buy all the stamps (unlike bees and snowflakes). For some reason I decided to buy this set, and the coordinating punch, when it was new in the catalog, but they have been out on the counter ever since then, waiting to be put to use before they can be put away. I ordered some new stamps this week and felt that I couldn't procrastinate with this set any longer, so the color challenge from Hand Stamped Sentiments was exactly the push I needed:

In spite of my usual aversion to pink, I thought that worked well enough that I might try another one, a little more out of my comfort zone. Here is my attempt at clean and simple, using the current color prompt from CAS Colours & Sketches:

Is the stamped background too busy to be clean and simple? I'm never really sure. As I see these cards together, it occurs to me that possibly the reason I bought the set is because it has a lot of versatility, in spite of just being flowers. I've seen samples using the flower petals as butterfly wings and as parts of a goldfish, as well!

Sunday, January 13, 2019

This week the prompt at Stamp, Ink, Paper is for black and white with one color - the perfect reason to put this stamp to work (especially since, as a beekeeper, I *had* to buy it as soon as I saw it in the catalog!):

It's been quite some time since I played along at Stamp, Ink, Paper but it wasn't intentional. My feed reader stopped picking up their posts and I didn't notice for a while (probably because I have more than 65 challenge blogs in my list!). I have to remember to actually type the address into the browser window, and that took me another while to get used to. Now that I've got my act together I'm hoping to be back more regularly!

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Many years ago (but not far away) a college dropout who had recently broken off her engagement, decided to buy a car, quit her job, and see the U.S.A. No, it wasn't a Chevrolet. Since then, there have been many more adventures, including major ones - marriage, motherhood, a college degree, a career - and minor ones. Blogging is one of the newest ones.

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